For an external USB 5GB+ spinning disk (not SSD), is HFS a better choice than APFS? Assume no weird edge cases like spanning volumes or RAID are involved. It's just a disk.
It is very easy to find either answer, but hard to find one that sounds like it's from someone who knows what they are talking about, and isn't just cargo-culting it or reading from a press release. So show your work.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederlandse consumenten hebben in maart meer uitgegeven na de dalingen in de voorgaande twee maanden. Volgens het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) steeg de consumptie met 0,9 procent in vergelijking met een jaar eerder. In januari en februari zakten de consumentenuitgaven nog met respectievelijk 0,5 en 0,3 procent.
Volgens het CBS gingen de uitgaven aan duurzame goederen omhoog. Daarbij werd vooral meer besteed aan auto's, elektrische apparaten en spullen voor de woning. Verder werd meer geld uitgegeven aan vervoer en communicatie, medische diensten en huisvesting.
Aan voedingsmiddelen en overige goederen, zoals energie en motorbrandstoffen, werd juist minder besteed, aldus het CBS. Dat geldt ook voor de bestedingen aan horeca, recreatie en cultuur.
Het bureau meldt verder dat de omstandigheden voor de consumptie in april ongunstiger waren dan in maart. Dat komt vooral doordat consumenten negatiever waren over de financiële situatie in de komende twaalf maanden en de jaar-op-jaarstijging van de beurskoersen kleiner was.
A history of the social and cultural impact of DH Lawrence’s novel shows how it inspired comedy as well as controversy
Not known for his humour, DH Lawrence thought of Lady Chatterley’s Lover as a serious novel about the sacred nature of sex. But some of the activity between Connie and the gamekeeper Mellors is funny, either unintentionally (as in the scene where they garland each other’s naked bodies with flowers) or with a playful recognition of carnal absurdity: his penis is “farcical” and intercourse involves a “ridiculous bouncing of buttocks”. More comic still was the fallout from the book: customs officers seizing banned copies, high court jinks, innumerable skits and cartoons. As Guy Cuthbertson shows in his entertaining book, “It’s not a comic novel as such, but one way or another, it created laughter.”
On a steam railway in Devon, you can ride in a carriage called Lady Chatterley. Boots, blouses, thongs, earrings, pens, postcards and saris also bear her name and there have been endless jokey variations on the title: Lady Chatterley’s Pullover, Lady Chatterley’s Loofah, Lady Loverley’s Chatter and so on. Allusions to the novel turn up everywhere from lonely hearts ads to fancy dress parades. And as John Profumo and David Mellor discovered, if you were caught with your pants down in a sex scandal there’d be jokes about the new moral decrepitude that followed the unbanning of the book.
Continue reading...Bargains are disappearing and the cost of gadgets such as MacBooks and PS5s is rising as AI competes for memory chips
The end of the cheap laptop, the bargain phone and affordable games consoles may be on the horizon. Not because new models are more hi-tech, but because the cost of computer components has shot up.
Recently, the biggest manufacturers of laptops and phones, including Microsoft, Samsung and Dell, started putting up prices and pulling cheaper models – which is going to make finding budget phones and laptops under £400 much harder.
Continue reading...Butcher’s shops and dive bars sit side by side in a district where you can swap the touristy beer halls of the city centre for raw creative energy
In the south-west of Munich, Schlachthofviertel is an area in flux; a jarring district that is home to a theatre, a techno club and a controversial active slaughterhouse.
Continue reading...The Melbourne declaration aims to direct funding and power to those most overlooked and affected by injustice. But for many its promise is a distant one
I first spoke to Shazia Khanum for a report I was writing on adolescent girls in informal jobs. The 16-year-old’s fingers moved swiftly as she talked, rolling bidis – tobacco in tendu leaves tied with string. She told me she rolls about 300 to 500 thin cigarettes daily, earning a little more than £1 on a good day (roughly 250 rupees for 1,000 bidis is the rate).
In the cramped workshop where she works in rural Yarab Nagar, in India’s Karnataka state, dozens of other girls do the same job. There are no toilets or sanitary facilities. When asked how she manages her period, Khanum just pointed to a makeshift curtained space where she changes and reuses cloth rags.
Continue reading...Sophie Hyde’s semi-autobiographical tale about sexual identity and intergenerational dynamics falls flat, but is buoyed by Colman and Lithgow’s committed performances
Sophie Hyde has directed an earnestly intended but very indulgent film, somewhere between autobiography and autofiction; it blandly congratulates itself on its sensitivity and cathartic honesty, but is without the spark of her 2019 quarterlifecrisis comedy Animals. When the teen female lead takes soulful photos on a hipstery disposable roll-film camera instead of on a smartphone like anyone else, it is frankly a little bit insufferable. Yet there are focused and committed performances from Olivia Colman and John Lithgow.
Adelaide-based film-maker Hannah (Colman), based on Hyde, goes on a trip to Amsterdam with her smiley husband and non-binary child Frances, played by Hyde’s own child Aud Mason-Hyde; this is to visit Hannah’s charismatic, brilliant and impossibly life-affirming father, Jim (Lithgow), adorably calledJimpa. He is a man who came out as gay to his wife and daughters in the early 70s and left them to live in Amsterdam as a radical lecturer and campaigner on issues such as housing and HIV.
Continue reading...From images exploring the depths of space and time to a series on life in war-torn Ukraine, this year’s photography festival celebrates 10 years uplifting new artists
Continue reading...Financial Stability Board report reveals tech, healthcare and services sectors as the biggest borrowers
The private credit industry’s role in fuelling the AI boom could backfire, with a sharp correction leading to “sizeable” losses, the Financial Stability Board has warned.
A new report into private credit by the global watchdog, which monitors financial authorities including central banks in 24 countries, found that the healthcare, services, and tech sectors have become the biggest borrowers of private credit.
Continue reading...Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamusekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo
She could hear the sounds of artillery. “I have no idea how I am still alive,” says Lucie Kamusekera. When the city of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, fell to a rebel offensive in early 2025, the 82-year-old artist was hiding at home.
Kamusekera, 82, stitches scenes of contemporary Congolese history on to tobacco sacks
Continue reading...When I became pregnant, all I wanted was a healthy baby. Discovering I would be having a son gave me a new perspective on the narratives around masculinity
At the 20-week ultrasound, because of the baby’s position, my partner and I didn’t get any proper pictures to take home. Instead, the sonographer printed us a shot of the genitals. So, there it was, in black and white: I was having a boy.
Growing up, boys were a slightly alien concept. Our household was female-heavy – a mum, two sisters, a dad with no interest in conventional “boy stuff”. We did have two male cats, neutered, extremely fluffy and ironically named Mr White and Mr Orange by my dad (“Reservoir Cats”).
Continue reading...US president says he will briefly pause Project Freedom after just one day; Rubio says US has achieved objectives of Iran operation; Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi flies to China
Here are some images from Beirut’s growing tent encampments. Lebanon’s health ministry says more than 2,600 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since 2 March, and over a million people displaced.
Since Donald Trump announced the pause to Project Freedom, about six hours ago, the price of Brent crude oil has been hovering around $108 a barrel, with no notable moves up or down.
Continue reading...Under new guidelines caning will only be used in schools for male students aged nine and above
Male school students who bully others, including through cyberbullying, will face caning as a “last resort” under new guidelines introduced in Singapore.
Male students can face up to three strokes of the cane under the new rules, which were discussed in parliament on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Eerst herdenken we 4 mei, dan vieren we 5 mei en daarna komen herdenken en vieren altijd weer samen in 6 mei, door sommigen herdacht en door sommigen gevierd. Dan maar hij afgemaakt, nu 24 jaar geleden alweer. Na Pim kregen we LPF2, en Leefbaar, en we kregen de PVV, en we kregen TON, en Rita, en JA21, en Belang, en Forum, en DNA en dat was voornamelijk janken, chaos, kansloos, verbitterd, afsplitsers, kneuzen, weglopers, wappies en gestoorden. En het probleem meneer, dat is gebleven. Later meer.
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